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CVE-2026-2297 Detail

Description

The import hook in CPython that handles legacy *.pyc files (SourcelessFileLoader) is incorrectly handled in FileLoader (a base class) and so does not use io.open_code() to read the .pyc files. sys.audit handlers for this audit event therefore do not fire.


Metrics

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CVSS 4.0 Severity and Vector Strings:

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NIST: NVD
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Nist CVSS score does not match with CNA score
CNA:  Python Software Foundation
CVSS-B 5.7 MEDIUM
Vector:  CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/482d6f8bdba9da3725d272e8bb4a2d25fb6a603e Python Software Foundation
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/a51b1b512de1d56b3714b65628a2eae2b07e535e Python Software Foundation
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/e58e9802b9bec5cdbf48fc9bf1da5f4fda482e86 Python Software Foundation
https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/145506 Python Software Foundation
https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/145507 Python Software Foundation

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2026-2297
NVD Published Date:
03/04/2026
NVD Last Modified:
03/04/2026
Source:
Python Software Foundation